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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
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"I don't like to dwell on the past."
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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
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"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
Film
"I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist."
Identity
"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."
Passion
"I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it."
People
"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."
Magic
"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."
Respect
"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
Music
"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it."
Nature
"We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors."
Age
"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before."
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